He made three orbits.
Magellan WAS the first person to circumnavigate the earth. He died on the voyage, though.
jesus maybe? the first person that was on the earth people say or his friends or relatives?
He invented the system of longitude and latitude.He was too the first person who calculate the circumference of the Earth.
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The Mercury capsule went to space in 1961. Although the Soviets had put a person in space first, Alan Shepard was the first American to fly the Mercury capsule in space.
He made three orbits.
John Glennwas the first American to circle the earth. He was later a Democratic Senator from Ohio.
Alan Shepard was the first person to go into space using a Mercury Capsule. His flight was sub-orbital, lasting about 15 minutes.
That would have to be Yuri Gagarin, who left his Vostok capsule after landing.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in 1962; that helped further the "space race."
The first manned orbital capsule was the Vorstok 1, manned by soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Dr. Thornwell Jacobs was the inventor of the first time capsule. He made the first time capsule in the year of 8113.
The first person to orbit the earth was astronaut, John Glenn...
A return capsule is a vehicle in which to travel on the return trip from somewhere. For example the first astronauts that walked on the moon used the descent vehicle "Eagle" to land on the Moon and get back to the "Return Capsule" (the Command/Service Module) which took them back to Earth.
It was Adam, he was the first person on Earth!
The Soviet Union takes credit for sending the first man into orbit around the earth. However, since, Yuri Gagarin did not land in his capsule, it technically does not count as an official orbit. Still, no one disputes that Gagarin did in fact orbit the earth. The first person to orbit the earth and land in his spacecraft was John Glenn of the United States.